This is an analysis of the poem The Court Of Penance that begins with:

Behold the Court of Penance. Four gaunt walls
Shutting out all things but the upper heaven.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbaba cdcccd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101010111 10111101010 1111110011 01010001010 111110010010 1111111100 10011101010 1001000111 1011010101 0101101101 1100111011 0111111100 101010011101 1011001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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